Barcelona midsummer

OH MY GOD BARCELONA WAS AMAZING!! The real reason for spending midsummer in Barca was actually my friend who turned 30 and invited us to Spain for the weekend. As she is a Finn living in London we were a mixed group of Finnish and London friends. We all arrived there during Friday; myself and 2 others flew in on the first Finnair flight of the day arriving at 9am. That day was pretty much spent shopping and lunching by the pier, getting to know all the new people I had not met before. We had a lovely dinner by the beach at a place called Aqua – good seafood at decent price. Mind you I didn’t taste anything as I obviously came down with a summer flu last Tuesday. It was Whistler all over again.

Saturday was the big day and we kicked it off on a catamaran, sailing along the shores of Barcelona for 4 hours. That was honestly so incredible I can’t even begin to explain it! Music, sun, Cava, great people, laughter, chilling. Uh-mazing. Thank you girls for that day! Some of us even went swimming – yours truly diving in in a bandeau bikini top. Yeaaahh.. don’t try that.

After our sailing trip we had lunch at one of the beach clubs and then Sara and I decided to head back into town in search of pedicures. At some point we realized it’s actually quite a long walk and what do with spot? A tinder rickshaw! Haha, of course we had to catch a ride with it. But much like the app, no matches were made during the ride.

Later that night we had a birthday dinner followed by clubbing at a place called CDLC where we’d booked a table. The club and their arrangements were probably the only disappointing thing about our weekend, but the party girls got to dance so all good in the end! I was absolutely knackered when I got back to our flat at 3.30am – which was considered early by the way! Apparently in Spain you stay out until 6 or so. Those of us staying until Monday had to switch apartments on Sunday so I wasn’t too disappointed with my “early night” when the alarm went off in the morning. Our tour guide/birthday girl had booked us a table for brunch after which we split into two groups; sightseeing and tanning. I opted for the first choice and did a mini-tour of Sagrada Familia and Gaudi buildings. We didn’t go inside any of them so I’ve left something for next time.